Re: Life is Beautiful Festival

Those poor schmucks that bought early bird expecting to see Jack, Beck and Massive Attack are crying right now. The production company has been hyping this fest for a long while about how much they are renovating and adding art installations downtown and how they are going to build this into a major fest for the city. Then they drop a half ass lineup like this with just about all of the headliners having already played Vegas this year.

Re: Life is Beautiful Festival

Uhhh, none of the headliners have played Vegas this year. Kanye was here last October, Foo Fighters haven't been here in years, and, of course, Outkast hasn't either. AM haven't been here in a few years. No Lionel Richie, Flaming Lips, Alt-J, Broken Bells, TV on the Radio. Who exactly HAS been here this year? Skrillex? Every major DJ in the WORLD has been here this year.

Re: Life is Beautiful Festival

Originally Posted by HerbalK

Uhhh, none of the headliners have played Vegas this year. Kanye was here last October, Foo Fighters haven't been here in years, and, of course, Outkast hasn't either. AM haven't been here in a few years. No Lionel Richie, Flaming Lips, Alt-J, Broken Bells, TV on the Radio. Who exactly HAS been here this year? Skrillex? Every major DJ in the WORLD has been here this year.

Re: Life is Beautiful Festival

I saw Lionel Richie a few years ago, took my girl to see him. I don't understand why he's being booked for these festivals. What a complete waist of time (I look behind me as I type this in fear of Lionel bitch-slapping me out of no where).

Re: Life is Beautiful Festival

Originally Posted by ods..

there's a lot to enjoy and there's also a lot to hate. Excited to make it out to my first Life is Beautiful

Yep. I’ll concentrate on what I expect to enjoy – for starters, Phantogram, Broken Bells, TV on the Radio, Fitz & the Tantrums, Tycho, the Flaming Lips (haven’t caught them live, yet, heard both good and bad about their live sets, I guess I’ll see), Arctic Monkyes, tuneyards, St. Lucia, the Orwells – avoid what I won’t (for instance, Skrillex and Kanye) and research to find some new stuff I might like.

Not a great lineup, but neither was last year’s and I still had a blast from start to finish. There was plenty of good music, like Purity Ring and Beck and STS9 and Portugal the Man, and the festival organizers really had their shit together for the inaugural with the layout and food and drink and art and security (no fucking strip searches on the way in like Coachella) and stage locations and sound systems (the exception being the Huntridge stage with its anemic sound).

Helped that the weather was perfect, too. And the crowd was very chill, just about the friendliest crowd out to have a good time without acting like the people around them didn’t exist that I’ve experienced in 45 years attending live performances.

Very happy to have gotten my earlybird tix, and excited to see how LIB 2014 might match or even top LIB 2013.